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Teachers Role In Language Learning Essay

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Teachers play a crucial role in second or foreign language learning. Their characteristics, personality traits, behaviors, strategies and teaching methodologies along with other related factors determine their effectiveness in class and the impact they have on their students' attitudes and achievement. Some of the features that contribute directly to effective teaching are feeling responsibility for the classroom and students’ success, using personal experiences as examples in teaching, being not only planned but also flexible and spontaneous when necessary, be responsive to situations and students’ needs, and looking for the best solution in conflict situations. Effective teachers know about how each student perform in class that they teach. When a student has a problem, the teacher tries to work more on that troublesome teaching point and provides necessary remediation to fill in that gap. Littlewood (1981) believes that in language learning context, language teachers play the broad role of “facilitator of learning” instead of being just the “instructor” (p. 92). Considering different students with various characteristics in a variety of …show more content…

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